History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
-
Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity: The First SeriesExplores a new relation between magnetism and electricity. In this title, Faraday shows us his unsuccessful as well as his successful experiments, and his crude ideas as well as his developed ones, and the reader is tempted to believe that, if he had the...
- $23.65 AUD
- $23.65 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Cleveland Amusement Park Memories: A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park, Puritas Springs Park, Geauga Lake Park, and Other Classic ParksNortheast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Puritas Springs Park, White City, Memphis Kiddie Park, Geneva-on-the-Lake, and others. Those boisterous,...
- $52.70 AUD
- $52.70 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Death Ride at Euclid Beach: And Other True Tales of Crime & Disaster from Cleveland's Past"Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune ... But what emerges between the lines are stories of human suffering, stories of class struggle, stories that speak as much to the criminal mind as to the crime itself."...
- $44.78 AUD
- $44.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Runes and MagicOriginally published in 1986, based on the author's 1984 doctoral dissertation, this volume has become the leading academic study of the topic of rune-magic. When originally released only 250 copies of this work were printed in a prohibitively expensive edition. This new revised and...
- $90.60 AUD
- $90.60 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Seven Faces of DarknessHere is a book which penetrates to the core of the Typhonian current active in the world today-- and does so by returning to the very fountainheads of Setian practice and philosophy. Never before has anyone made the true Typhonian current more plain and...
- $34.51 AUD
- $34.51 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Rivers Ran EastLong out of print, this is a riveting firsthand account of Leonard Clark s search for the legendary lost Seven Cities of Cibola reputedly home to enormous reserves of gold in the rain forest east of the Peruvian Andes. A former U.S. Army intelligence...
- $38.38 AUD
- $38.38 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest DefeatThe fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire; this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that enabled 60,000 Japanese to defeat 130,000 British.Author: Masanobu TsujiPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished: 10/22/1997Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.03w x...
- $43.45 AUD
- $43.45 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Guide to Kemetic Relationships: Ancient Egyptian Maat Wisdom of Relationships, a Comprehensive Philosophical, Legal and Psychological Manual to ApplyAccording to statistics more than half of marriages fail. Why is there strife between friends, between family members, between parent and child, between communities, between neighborhoods, and between countries? This volume is perhaps the most important book Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) philosophy on the subject...
- $101.93 AUD
- $101.93 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Story of Asar, Aset and Heru: An Ancient Egyptian Legend Storybook and Coloring Book24. THE STORY OF ASAR, ASET AND HERU: An Ancient Egyptian Legend (For Children) Now for the first time, the most ancient myth of Ancient Egypt comes alive for children. Inspired by the books The Asarian Resurrection: The Ancient Egyptian Bible and The Mystical...
- $38.38 AUD
- $38.38 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Famous Men of the 16th & 17th Century28 biographies from Queen Elizabeth I (who came to the throne in 1560) through King Louis XIV who died in 1715. The 17th century was an age of religious wars and revolutions. The French had seven civil wars of religion from 1570-1590. The German...
- $40.65 AUD
- $40.65 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Twenty Years A-GrowingO'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. "The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation."-Sean O'F ol in, The Listener. Introductory Note by E....
- $45.78 AUD
- $45.78 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in AmericaIndispensable Enemies sheds light on political power in America. The reason we no longer understand why things happen as they do has one, and only one, source. We no longer understand who really has power in America. This book is an attempt to show...
- $39.50 AUD
- $39.50 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927-1933Dal 's meditations on art and the paranoid-critical method, plus poems and moreSalvador Dal 's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all...
- $31.60 AUD
- $31.60 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: The Beginnings of the American RevolutionThe beginnings of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord come alive through personal narratives from participants and observers and through primary sources representing British and Colonist points of view. Historian Jeanne Munn Bracken describes the events leading up to the revolt in her...
- $30.00 AUD
- $30.00 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Bondage of the WillThis edition of the Bondage of the Will was translated by Henry Cole in 1823. "Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole Gospel of the grace of God, he held, was bound up with it, and stood or fell according to...
- $61.13 AUD
- $61.13 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Burt's Letters: From the North of ScotlandIn 1730, Edmund Burt was sent to Scotland to work as a contractor for the government. His work on the military roads opened up the north and gave him unparalleled access throughout the area, allowing him to meet the people of the Highlands and...
- $63.28 AUD
- $63.28 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
US Army Infantry Divisions 1943-45: Volume 1 - Organization, Doctrine & EquipmentIn the first of a three-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the organization, doctrine and equipment of U.S. Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II. The second and third volumes will provide capsule histories for all...
- $131.98 AUD
- $131.98 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Ithell Colquhoun: Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer and PoetThe skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Additionally, other interests - alchemy, Earth-magic, active occultism, poetry, druidism, the pre-Christian pagan calendar, the history and membership of the...
- $105.70 AUD
- $105.70 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Winnie Mandela: A LifeEveryone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hated more than any other woman in South African history. But few people know much about the life behind the headlines, myths and sound-bites. This biography...
- $40.65 AUD
- $40.65 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
In the Heart of the Whore: The Story of Apartheid's Death SquadsThe ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence.The first crack in the wall came with the...
- $50.73 AUD
- $50.73 AUD
- Unit price
- per
